# Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016, Section 75: Legal status of code of practice


(1) A court or tribunal in civil or criminal proceedings must take a code of practice into account when determining any question arising in the proceedings to which the code is relevant.
(2) Breach of a code of practice does not of itself give rise to grounds for any legal claim whatsoever.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/1/section/75 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016/section-75
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